MOSCOW, October 17. / TASS /. The crew members, who were on the International Space Station (ISS) for 12 days to shoot The Challenge, are in better condition than predicted. This was stated by the adviser to the head of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA) of Russia Vyacheslav Rogozhnikov on the air of Channel One.
“I predicted a worse option. On average, it takes us eight to nine years to train a professional cosmonaut, and then we have these violations. I thought that our cosmonauts would have more significant violations. In fact, they endured weightlessness very well,” he said. he.
The Soyuz MS-18 descent vehicle with cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko landed in Kazakhstan at 07:35 Moscow time on Sunday. Peresild and Shipenko shot a feature film in space for the first time in the world. The space drama, tentatively titled The Challenge, is a story about a female doctor who flies into orbit to rescue an astronaut. The film is a joint project of Roscosmos, Channel One and the studio Yellow, Black and White. The filming was also attended by Russian cosmonauts – Anton Shkaplerov, Oleg Novitsky and Peter Dubrov.
In total, about 35-40 minutes of screen time should have been filmed in orbit. According to Dmitry Rogozin, general director of Roscosmos, on Twitter, the actress and director worked “to the detriment of good sleep.”
